A beat-by-beat trajectory of Garber's control as a first-time viewer perceives it. The audience is locked into Garber's limited viewpoint for most of the film — we know only what the radio tells us. The escape sequence is where audience perception diverges most: the film cuts between Garber (baffled) and the hijackers (executing their plan), so the audience briefly knows more than the protagonist. The sneeze ending works because the audience has already given up — we watched Garber turn to leave and accepted that Longman would walk.